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Topic: Old error message on Gparted startup

The error is old as this world. After Gparted 0.28.1 loads in OS ALT Linux I see next error message: "Libparted Bug Found! Could not stat device /dev/mapper No RAID disks - No such file or directory" (libparted 3.2). This incident is a vivid example of a situation when the mistake of only one programmer can torture the lives of millions of ordinary users for decades, but I still hope that the best minds of Gparted developers will help me to shout down this application. I believe that for a long time of the existence of this problem there was a way to solve it. Thankful in advance to anyone for an answer.

Re: Old error message on Gparted startup

If not, then perhaps you might investigate to see if there are any missing packages on the OS ALT Linux install.

The error message is from the libparted library used by GParted. It is possible that the bug has already been fixed by the upstream Parted developers, but perhaps has not been included in the OS ALT Linux distro packages.

Re: Old error message on Gparted startup

Thank you for the answer. I think you are right because the latest GParted Live works without errors, but I hoped that this error can be corrected by hand, and now I understand that it is impossible, since it is more serious than I had expected earlier.

Re: Old error message on Gparted startup

If you do not have any RAID setup on your computer system then it is possible that there are left-over RAID signatures on at least one of the drives. You might investigate removing RAID signatures to see if that would clear up the error message on your GNU/Linux installation.